Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
TIME'S Jan. 26 story on the Wisconsin-Iowa basketball game at Madison . . . leads many of us rabid, wild-eyed midwestern basketball fans to wonder . . . whether TIME'S snappy style necessitates a mutilation of the facts...
...boss couldn't do anything worse than say no. So Edward Breslin, 21, a $45-a-week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...
...promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...